02/21/2026
On their way to the Watch of West Fall, Star & Scale was stopped entering Lyr'Lowain by a group of Grove Guard, including one shady looking guard who eyed them suspiciously.
They were warned there was an fugitive sorceress on the loose, who had hands imbued with arcane magics, and the group should be on the lookout
Later on the road, the group found the shady Grove Guard watching them from within a tree, and confronted him. The guard, whose name was Vaminen, revealed that he was not technically within the Grove Guard's command, and had a bad feeling about Seed, claiming he felt the creature would cause problems for Lyr'Lowain.
The group assured him they'd keep Seed in check, and Vaminen seemed to welcome their invitation to share their camp.
During the night, a woman named Payne arrived, hiding her arms from sight. When questioned as to who she was, she realized she was rousing suspicion, and darted off into the forest, waking Vaminen, who set off in pursuit.
The next evening, Zeb overheard May having a nightmare about her sister and being some place she was not supposed to be.
When Zeb woke her, they had a heart-to-heart about May's posession of the songs she recorded from Tambor in Ology, and claimed she'd heard them somewhere before. Her sister, Maxine, had hummed them often when they were children.
She promised Zeb that her focus was wholly on getting Lubomir back, and she put the songs from her mind.
The group soon arrived in the Watch of West Fall and heard the serenading lullaby that was played each night.
They soon met the player, Sinir, who seemed invested in playing matchmaker for the party, much to their consternation.
May became enamored with Regulus, the sound-affecting apparatus at the heart of the tower. She set about looking into all the old research station throughout the tower to learn more about it.
Zeb used the opportunity to commune with Tsh'Ah, and finally broke through with the help of Regulus, and learned much about the god of ancient secret's situation.
Apparently, Tsh'Ah had been laboring alone and strenuously, upholding a responsibility, though Zeb wasn't certain what that was.
He was able to speak to them directly, and learned that Tsh'Ah had reinforcements coming to help them in whatever labor they had, and because Zeb had contacted them, allowed of him one question.
Zeb asked where Ordnung could be found, and Tsh'Ah told him he was trapped in the Seven Seals of Pride and Pain, a prison on the third unseen moon. And getting there involved walking through a portal hidden somewhere on Vault using a song, or teleporting there when all three moons were in alignment, making the distance traversable.
When the group went to find May to continue their journey, they found she'd become obsessed with Regulus and refused to leave, asking for a few more days to figure things out.
Seed, thinking May might be succumbing to something bad, went and touched Regulus, intent on destroying it.